Salt Lick with David McMillan & Lesley Chesterman

Salt Lick with David McMillan & Lesley Chesterman
Podcast Description
A no-holds-barred food podcast with chef and winemaker David McMillan, and author Lesley Chesterman.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as vineyard management, organic winemaking challenges, and the complexities of dining regulations in Québec. Episodes feature topics like the impact of government legislation on the restaurant industry, post-pandemic dining trends, and culinary rivalries, with specific discussions on animal interference in vineyards and insights from critically analyzed cooking series.

A no-holds-barred food podcast with chef and winemaker David McMillan, and author Lesley Chesterman.

David and Lesley are warming up as podcast partners while temperatures rise in southern Québec, and the defrost (dégel) brings with it a heavy workload at the farm. Among the topics related to vineyard management, David praises organic winemaking but warns of the bureaucracy needed for certification. He also goes through the various wild animals he must keep away from the grapes including coyotes, deer and a mythical subspecies of bobcat that locals swear isn’t, as reported, extinct. For Salt Lick’s first news segment, Lesley watched the entire Meghan Markle (Meghan Sussex?) cooking series on Netflix so you don’t have to, and has mixed feelings; the pair discuss post-pandemic developments with Québec’s onerous wine and spirits regulations, and how necessary alcohol sales are to the success of many restaurants; Québec is also tackling restaurant no-shows with legislation but David is wary of yet more government overreach. Next on Salt Lick: Flour and breadmaking with the show’s first guest, Dawn Woodward of Evelyn’s Wholegrain Bakery in Toronto.
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Salt Lick is a TNKR Media Original Production.
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